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The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent unless proved guilty in court:
• 4:08 a.m.: Byron Kreck, 22, of Washoe Valley was arrested at John and Fall streets on charges of DUI, no valid driver's license, fictitious registration and reckless driving. Bail: $2,068.
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Jace Herndon, 41, a resident of Reno, died after being shot by a police officer just after 3 p.m. On Friday at 3:11 p.m., Reno police conducted a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle, occupied by three people. The officers were speaking with the driver, Herndon, and shortly thereafter shooting broke out, injuring the driver. REMSA responded, but Herndon died of his injuries.
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U.S. Automakers Hopeful After Worst Year In DecadesJanuary 6, 2010 3:38 am | by Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writers
DETROIT (AP) — Automakers in the U.S. ended their worst year in almost three decades with hints of a recovery in December. Many, especially those selling small or inexpensive vehicles, reported improvements last month and expressed hope for a mildly better 2010. It was a positive finish to one of the toughest years on record for the industry, with U.
Coal Miners Afflicted By Mysterious Razor BladesJanuary 6, 2010 3:33 am
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — The Campbell County Sheriff's Office is investigating a series of incidents involving razor blades at the North Antelope-Rochelle coal mine in Campbell County. Officials say someone put a razor blade in a pair of gloves used for working with high-voltage equipment in October.
Senator Bingaman: Cap-and-Trade Unlikely This YearJanuary 6, 2010 3:27 am | by Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Writer
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Tuesday that it's unclear whether Congress will be able to pass cap and trade legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions this year. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said there's no consensus on what form a cap-and-trade system would take, but strong desire exists in both the Senate and House to pass other energy-related bills that would curb pollution blamed for global warming.
GM Sales Decline 30 Percent In 2009January 6, 2010 3:25 am
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors said Tuesday its 2009 sales fell 30 percent and December sales fell 5.7 percent. BY THE NUMBERS: Sales fell to 207,538 vehicles in December from 220,030 a year earlier. For all of 2009, sales fell to 2.1 million vehicles from about 3 million. THE DIVISIONS: In December, car sales fell 9 percent to 79,417 from 87,506 while light truck sales fell 3 percent to 128,121 from 132,524.
Three Arrested In $100,000 Scrap Metal Theft From GMJanuary 6, 2010 3:23 am
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say three people suspected of stealing metal from an idled General Motors Corp. plant in Flint have been arrested. Police said two men and one woman were arrested about 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the Buick City complex about 55 miles northwest of Detroit and are being held at the Genesee County Jail.
Japanese Auto Sales Hit 38-Year LowJanuary 5, 2010 3:55 am
TOKYO (AP) — Auto sales in Japan declined to their lowest in 38 years, slumping 9 percent to 2.9 million vehicles for 2009, an industry group said Tuesday. Auto sales have been hammered by the economic slowdown as consumers tightened their pursestrings, despite tax breaks and cash-for-clunkers incentives introduced by the government.
FDA Seeks Closure Of N.J. Factory For Infected CheeseJanuary 5, 2010 3:51 am
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Chinese Factories Shut Down To Curb Power UseJanuary 5, 2010 3:47 am | by Joe McDonald, AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP) — Some Chinese factories were ordered Tuesday to shut down to ensure sufficient power to heat homes as demand surged amid record-setting winter cold, a utility company said. No outages were reported, but coal supplies were running low at power plants in central China, said Liu Xinfang, a spokesman for State Grid Corp.
Northrop Grumman To Move Corporate Office To D.C.January 5, 2010 3:46 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. said Monday it's moving its corporate office from Los Angeles to the Washington, D.C., area to be closer to key government customers. The company said it expects to make the move by 2011. Northrop said it was looking for a location in the Washington area, including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
Job Satisfaction Slips To 22-Year Record LowJanuary 5, 2010 3:38 am | by Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer
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German Manufacturer To Build $300m Miss. PlantJanuary 5, 2010 3:37 am | by Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press Writer
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Electronics Makers Introduce Innovations At CES ShowJanuary 4, 2010 4:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Electronics sales rebounded in the just-ended holiday season, but the industry's biggest event will still have the recession hanging over it. The International Consumer Electronics Show, which opens Wednesday, will be smaller than usual, with key products unveiled at prices that are far from extravagant.
Survey: Midwest Manufacturing Still Weak, Losing JobsJanuary 4, 2010 4:02 am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha economist says a December survey in nine Midwest and Plains states suggests that the region's economy will recovery weakly over 2010. The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region rose above growth neutral last month, reaching 50.3, compared with 47.5 in November.
China's Manufacturing Expands For Ninth MonthJanuary 4, 2010 3:53 am
BEIJING (AP) — China's manufacturing expanded in December for a ninth straight month as government stimulus spending boosted domestic demand and foreign sales rose, according to a survey released Monday. The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI rose to 56.1 from November's 55.7 on a 100-point scale where numbers above 50 show activity expanding.
Kraft vs. Nestle Bidding War Over Cadbury LoomsJanuary 4, 2010 3:50 am
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Cities, States Get Tough On Tax Breaks For New JobsJanuary 4, 2010 3:46 am | by Don Babwin, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal's a deal. As the recession drags on, municipalities struggling to fix roads, fund schools and pay bills increasingly are rescinding tax abatements to companies that don't hire enough workers, lay them off or close up shop.
Novartis Pays $38.5 Billion To Swallow Up AlconJanuary 4, 2010 3:41 am
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Drug maker Novartis AG said Monday it plans to take over Alcon Inc. by paying $38.5 billion for the 77 percent stake it does not already own in a deal that would make it one of the biggest players in the global market for eye-care products. The Swiss pharmaceutical company will purchase Nestle SA's 52 percent stake for $28 billion before carrying out a merger with Alcon that would give it control of the remaining 23 percent held by minority shareholders.
Boeing Acquires 787 Subassembly PlantDecember 22, 2009 3:51 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing Co. said Tuesday that it has purchased Alenia North America's 50 percent stake in a fuselage subassembly plant for its 787 Dreamliner. The transaction occurred through a Boeing subsidiary, making Boeing the sole owner of Global Aeronautica LLC. Further terms of the deal were not disclosed.
China Becomes World's Biggest Automotive MarketDecember 22, 2009 3:44 am | by Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer
CHENGDU, China (AP) — Minivan salesman Zhu Yi has a problem that most auto dealers elsewhere would happily swap for their own — he doesn't have enough vehicles to satisfy customer demand. "Sales are exploding," says Zhu, a 32-year-old manager at a General Motors Co. joint venture dealership in Chengdu, pointing to charts on his laptop that vividly plot the steep incline.
Boeing's Second 787 To Take Flight TodayDecember 22, 2009 3:39 am
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Boeing says its second 787 will take to the skies on Tuesday. The company has scheduled a test flight for the second jetliner at 8:45 a.m. The aircraft will take off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., as long as flight conditions cooperate. About 25,000 people turned out for the first test flight last Tuesday.


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1600 15th St, Denver, CO | Directions 8020239.750321 -105.001453
Monday To Saturday From 11:00 AM To 02:00 AM Sunday From 12:00 PM To 12:00 AM
Neighborhoods: LoDo, Union Station, Northwest Denver
A Denver Classic: Great Casual Dining – This place is near and dear to my heart with great pizza, great beers, a staff that does a good job hovering, and food that doesn't break the bank. So many good nights out in LoDo start here for me- especially before my friends and I go out to concerts at the Pepsi center (or games).
The local parking situation isn't the best, but you can usually find street parking- unless it is a game day.
The biggest drawback: I wouldn't recommend WSC for a business lunch unless you are the customer... It's just a little too casual.
Even the Pizza quality has declined. – I used to love this pizza joint. Wazee pizza was the best in the world and that was when the viaduct was still there. I have the poster framed on my office wall of the Wazee from the old days. My Bros bar was great for its JCBs, and still is, but Wazee has gone down hill in the quality of its food for sometime.
I taught at UCD and MSCD, and always had a semester-ending bash at the Supper Club, so I know it when it was in its hey day. Unless you knew your server, it never had good service. I hate to say it, but I have seen it deteriorate since its hey day to something unrecognizable. The pizza is no longer high quality and that is not good since the service is awful.
I am back in Denver and bought season tix for the Rox and looked forward to returning to one of my favorite places.
The manager is really a jackazz and seems very confrontational, and the corporate office knows it, so a change might be in the future. The pizza is only average, but the stromboli was good, especially the build-your-own.
I cannot recommend the Supper Club and that is disappointing since it was my favorite pizza joint in the country.
Regulars know – Staff and decor make this a welcoming place. The food makes one return again and again.
Wazee = BAD SERVICE – I'm not sure what happened to the Wazee Supper Club lately, but the staff has really gone down hill. Eating here was a chore. It was as if me and my family had to coach and babysit our waiter through his job so we could make sure to get our food. I don't usually notice bad service, but man! The moment I walked through the door I felt invisible.
Worst Service I Have Ever Had – I ate at the Wazee Supper Club tonight and it was a terrible mistake. I don't know why, but the service was unbelievably terrible. First of all, the hostess left my family and I immediately once we walked through the door to go bus a table (that a bus boy was already cleaning). She left us there for about five minutes waiting with a line piling up behind us. During that wait, we were considering leaving (we should have). Then we were finally seated at a table, by the way it was not the table that she left us to go bus, and had obviously not been cleaned. Then, it seemed that our waiter went missing, because it took forever for us to get service. Not only that, but the food was terrible. It's not like this restaurant even have a good selection of food. Finally, when we were done, the waiter seemed to feel no urgency to bring us the check, and we had to continuously remind him to bring it. I've been here several times before and nothing has changed. Nothing about this experience was good. I will advise all of my friends in the Lodo area to stay away from this establishment and I will never be eating here again.
Great pizza and location...I love this place – One of the great places with character in downtown Denver...good pizza, salad and calzones...I would recommend it to anyone.
Great Pizza, Wonderful Bartenders, and Friendly Customers – Funny thing about this place. You go in and you immediately feel at home. My wife and I love this place. The bartenders are great. The best we have found in Denver. Very funny and entertaining. Obviously they love their jobs. The wait staff is equally great. The food is really good and the kitchen staff is very competent and also friendly. Can't beat this ICON of LODO. Thanks to all.
Pizza crust is tops – We had lunch and found this to be a very good restaurant. Very casual and the menu consists of pizza, calzone, salad, burgers and other typical items found in a bar atmosphere. The pizza crust is as good as you are going to get. Will go back as the service is tops as well.
Awesome service and food! – Wazee supper club is a great place for lunch , happy hour , dinner, or a late night drink or meal. The service is great no matter who takes care of you, but if you want the best service go in and sit at the bar with Tony, Jenn, and Quinton or as his tabs say Qdog! the food is awesome but the atmosphere of the bar is great. Overall its the best pizza in lodo hands down! Make sure you go visit the wazee supper club you wont be disappointed!
Perfect – Great food, location, and atmosphere. We like the diverse menu. The video describes Wazee Supper Club perfectly!
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>> Video Below: See Creighton's Josh Jones discuss his retirement from basketball
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The end of Josh Jones' basketball career will require his Creighton teammates to make some adjustments as they move forward.
But it probably won't require any change in the mindset they've adopted in the four games that Jones missed since his Dec. 6 heart episode.
"I think we had an idea that there was a real possibility that he wouldn't come back," guard Grant Gibbs said. "Now we have the final word.
"This presents an opportunity for other people to step up. He's talked to people about that. We just have to have other people step up their production. That's how you handle a situation like this."
Jones, the senior guard from Omaha Central, announced Wednesday that his heart condition would force him to give up basketball. He hadn't played since fainting and being rushed to the hospital prior to the Dec. 6 game at Nebraska.
Jones, who has been Creighton's first guard off the bench the past two seasons, had played an average of 19.6 minutes in the Bluejays' first eight games. He was averaging 7.0 points and 2.4 rebounds per game.
Coach Greg McDermott shortened the rotation the past four games, with seven players getting the bulk of the playing time. Four of those players — Gibbs, Austin Chatman, Jahenns Manigat and Avery Dingman — are guards.
Gibbs, Chatman and Manigat are starters, while Dingman has moved into Jones' role.
"The reality of it is that it will never be like it was," McDermott said. "We don't have a fifth-year senior sitting over there that we can bring off the bench that embraced the role we asked him to play. He played fearless basketball, and we no longer have that.
"We had a nine-man rotation with Josh that sometimes goes to 10, and now we have an eight-man rotation that sometimes goes to nine. It's going to impact how we're going to play. Watching us play without Josh, we're a different team. We're going to have to do the best we can with the guys we have left."
The eighth man in the rotation since Jones went down has been center Will Artino, who played 1, 12, 4 and 8 minutes in the wins over Nebraska, Akron, California and Tulsa.
Creighton opens Missouri Valley play Saturday against Evansville. As the Bluejays get deeper into the grind of conference play, they might have to look to redshirt freshmen Nevin Johnson and true freshman Andre Yates to give the four guards in the rotation some additional breathers.
Yates started the season as Chatman's backup at the point but McDermott has shown the tendency to go with Gibbs, a senior who leads the team in assists, in the role the past half dozen games. Johnson missed the first three games while recovering from a preseason ankle injury, and has played 17 minutes in six games since returning to action.
Dingman has picked up the bulk of the reserve minutes since Jones went out. He had been averaging about 12 minutes in Creighton's first eight games. In the last four, he's averaged almost 18 minutes per game.
"I don't know if it's really changed my mind-set," said Dingman, a sophomore from Branson, Mo. "I've been going into games with the same mind-set that I had. I have to be ready to provide a spark off the bench.
"Bottom line, that was my mind-set before Josh got sick. I have to be prepared to provide some energy when I'm in there."
Dingman has averaged 8.0 points in Creighton's last four games, with the bulk of the production coming in the career-high 21 points he scored in the Dec. 19 victory over Tulsa. Overall, Dingman is averaging 5.8 points and 2.5 rebounds this season.
When Jones was playing, Creighton reserves outscored their counterparts by 158 points. In the four games without him, Creighton is minus-7 in bench scoring.
When the Bluejays were regularly playing nine players, they scored 77 points or more in six of the first eight games. With the rotation reduced to seven, they've scored fewer than 77 points in three of the four games.
Still, they maintain they can still be a productive team without Jones. In the interim since he got sick, Jones has talked to his teammates about what he expects from them.
"I think that was important," Gibbs said. "There is always more value when you hear it from a teammate. And seeing how guys have stepped up has been encouraging.
"That has to continue. It obviously can't be a one-night deal. Josh did a lot for this team through last season and early this year. We have a lot of void to fill."
Notes: Creighton has posted double-digit victories in each of its 11 wins. That ranks second nationally to Pitt, which has 12 wins each by 10 points or more. … How important is Saturday's game against Evansville? Since the 1993-94 season, only one team — Northern Iowa in 2008-09 — won or shared the regular-season Valley title without winning its opening conference game. … Creighton has not trailed in either of its last two games against California or Tulsa. In five December games, the Bluejays have been behind a total of four minutes and 21 seconds.
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OURAY – Forest management issues, pending wilderness legislation, the fate of the Gunnison sage grouse and other topics of local and regional concern will be up for discussion at a town hall meeting with U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) in Ouray next Tuesday evening, May 28. The meeting is scheduled from 6-7 p.m. at the Ouray Community Center.
One issue the U.S. Representative from the 3rd District of Colorado will certainly focus on during his visit to Ouray is the Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act, which he introduced in congress this year.
The legislation to allow greater state and local involvement in proactive wildfire prevention on federal lands cleared the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation on April 11. The bill is supported by many Colorado counties and the National Association of Counties, as well as state and national environmental organizations and conservation districts.
The contentious San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act will also likely be a topic of discussion, as Wilderness backers continue to urge Tipton to introduce companion legislation in the House, and opponents make sure he hears plenty of reasons not to do so. "The congressman continues to hear from all sides on that issue and welcomes constituent feedback on that," said Tipton's Communications Director/Press Secretary Joshua Green.
While Tipton has refrained from revealing whether or not he will support the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act, he did recently introduce another piece of Wilderness legislation in the current legislative session. The Hermosa Creek Wilderness Bill, co-sponsored by Senator Bennet, would protect more than 100,000 acres in San Juan National Forest, and designate 38,000 acres of new Wilderness on the Hermosa Creek Watershed.
If time allows, Tipton will also entertain questions during his visit to Ouray about topics of the day that are monopolizing discussion on Capitol Hill, including Obamacare, energy development, ongoing investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya, AP wire taps and the IRS scandal, immigration reform, gun control, taxes and small business development, how the sequester has impacted PILT and SRS funding, and the impact of droughts across the West.
Tipton's visit here is part of a broad sweep of the Western Slope and central mountain regions of Colorado which he will make next week.
"It's a pretty busy week," said Green. "It's a good chance for the congressman to hear from constituents before heading back into eight straight weeks of session."
Tipton's pending visit was announced at the Ouray City Council meeting on Monday evening, May 20.
In other news from the City of Ouray, council received an end-of-season report from San Juan Mountain Guides pertaining to its management of the climbing concession at the Ouray Ice Park; a water update from Dave Kanzer of the Colorado River District and Steve Fletcher, the manager of the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association; and an update on Amendment 64 from City Attorney Kathryn Sellars. In action items, council moved unanimously (with only three councilors present) to a release and settlement agreement pertaining to a property at 306 1/2 Oak Street, and appointed Councilor Michael Underwood to represent the City of Ouray on the newly formed Ouray County Water Users Association Steering Committee.
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A Unique Tunnel Leading Through the Cellars of the Velké Popovice Brewery Became the Most Popular Attraction in 2012
30 January 2013
Velké Popovice, January 29, 2013 – The Velké Popovice brewery was visited by almost 28,000 tourists last year. Czechs were the most frequent visitors, representing more than half of the total volume. Foreign guests from countries where Kozel beer is also popular included Russian tourists (representing the largest group), followed by tourists from Hungary. The Velké Popovice brewery, one of the most visited spots in the region, is also attracting visitors from as far away as Japan, Canada and Taiwan.
The Velké Popovice brewery introduced a new tour of their facilities in 2012. Guests are now invited to visit the brewery cellars and a Kozel beer tasting. More importantly, visitors can tour a unique tunnel connecting the cellars with the racking room. The largest wooden beer keg, with a capacity of 96 hectolitres, can be seen at the entrance to the cellars. A new exhibit showcasing the worldwide export of Kozel beer has been added to the racking room.
The Velké Popovice brewery, with its almost 140-year-old tradition, is visited primarily by locals. It is only 15 kilometres away from Prague, which makes it an ideal destination for hikers and cyclists alike. One of the most architecturally interesting breweries, it is attracting greater attention from abroad, proportionally increasing with the rising popularity of Kozel beer. Czechs mainly come individually, while most foreign visitors arrive on tours organised by their travel agents.
"We are constantly looking for new and interesting ways to bring the history of our brewery and our beer production to our visitors. Of course, we make sure to include a natural part of the brewery and a living legend, billy goat Olda. And with the help of Pilsen coopers, we have provided Olda with a new abode," said Eva Kršňáková, head of the brewery's Visitors' Centre, Velké Popovice.
A number of special events held throughout the year contribute to Popovice attendance numbers. The most renowned include our Annual Pork Feast, the Spring March through Baron Ringhoffer's countryside, the Kozel Day festivities, Summer with Kozel, as well as others. Visitors can look forward to a year filled with events.
Our visitors combine their brewery experience with shopping at the Kozel store, where a wide variety of gift items with the Kozel logo can be purchased. Velkopopovická Kozlovna, a stylish restaurant right next to the brewery, also offers our visitors a friendly place to relax and experience the special gastronomy during Kozel Gourmet Days.
Notes to editors
- The Velké Popovice brewery is a member of Pilsner Urquell a.s. With total sales of nearly 9.9 million hectolitres in 2012 (including licensed production abroad) and exports to more than 50 countries around the world, Pilsner Urquell is the leading producer of beer in the region and the largest exporter of Czech beer.
- Pilsner Urquell is a member of SABMiller plc, the second largest beer producer in the world, with brewing interests or distribution agreements in over 60 countries across six continents.
- Velkopopovický Kozel is a brand with its own irreplaceable spot in the Pilsner Urquell portfolio. It belongs to the most dynamic brands on the Czech market, as well as on foreign markets. Velkopopovický Kozel Černý is also the dark-beer market leader in the Czech Republic.
- The first batch of beer was brewed in the Velké Popovice brewery on December 15th, 1874, and a year later 18,000 hectolitres of beer were produced (brewed and sold). After a few years, the brewery became the third largest in the country. Particularly famous was the production of strong, dark beer.
- Current information about activities and projects supported by the Velkopopovický Kozel brand can be found on www.kozel.cz
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At just 40 years old, Grammy-nominated country artist/producer Charlie Kelley was diagnosed with colon cancer. His experience taught him how many families are unable to meet the extraordinary financial demands that a cancer diagnosis can create. This became the inspiration for the Blue Note Fund.
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In the world of the HBO series "Game of Thrones," it's not just the fire-breathing dragons which drive the plot, but gold dragon coins.» Read More
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Backed by $60 million in investment, Beats Music's library has all the songs you'd ever want to hear. But can the new streaming service stand out from the crowd?
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The deal Twitter struck with Starcom Media Group guarantees millions in advertising dollars in exchange for advertising spots for Starcom clients.
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Katie Couric will join Marissa Mayer's Yahoo next year as global news anchor while continuing her talk show on ABC.
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I did plenty of drinking, smoking, and getting high at the mall. We'd just go outside and pass stuff around and then go back into the mall to hang out and watch the boys play video games.
Oh and at friend's houses, sometimes with the parents upstairs - who were usually clueless. "we're just studying!".
OH, and the library was a great place too to sneak cigarettes.
And the girl who was the biggest instigator of all the rebellion was a girl scout until age 15. Our class president was the biggest druggie of anyone in the class.
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Nails can be an accessory you have fun with. "My mom couldn't get me out of the house unless I got to wear two different-colored socks," Williams remembers. "I think of nails the same way."
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Fleiner, the president of JLH Mail, is enjoying the advantage of expanding his direct mailing, fulfillment and inventory management business.
He is taking his work to a national level while other local companies are calling it quits with layoffs and closures.
"In this day and age, in this economy, you know, to see the company wanting to expand, it's a different feeling," Fleiner said.
JLH of Sparks recently announced a merger with Complemar, Inc., a company based in Rochester, N.Y., that specializes in packaging, fulfillment and distribution. It was the network parent company for JLH and was seeking a central location on the West Coast. Following recommendations from other companies in the industry, Complemar tapped into JLH.
Fleiner, who purchased the business from its original owner three years ago, said the new contract will improve the local JLH's ability to distribute nationally and to increase its clientele as a "conduit" for warehouse distribution and direct mail services.
"I had no plans to do a merger or acquisition merger, but when (Complemar) came to see us, they laid out their growth plans and they fell in line with our plans, so we started talking seriously about making the deal happen," Fleiner said.
The merger closed the Friday before Thanksgiving last year.
"The great part about this entire merger is, as far as everybody locally thinks of us, we're still JLH," Fleiner said. "We're not changing our core values, not changing the way we do business."
With the partnership in Rochester, JLH can now reach about 75 percent of its distribution population with next-day service, Fleiner said. It has opened possibilities for the company to grow outside the northern Nevada market.
Direct mail and fulfillment are key services for businesses during challenging times, Fleiner said. They are becoming tools through which clients, which range from mom-and-pop businesses to corporations and even some Fortune 1000 organizations, can reassess their marketing and advertising needs.
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"There's not so much a declining demand, but by looking at mailing programs and mailing smarter, they're going to on-demand," Fleiner said. "They would print 12 months (of advertising) at a time, but basically they're now on a month-to-month, need-to-need basis. We see a huge growth in our fulfillment area because of the fact that people want to outsource and stabilize their costs."
As a marketing support service, Fleiner said, JLH gives business owners the opportunity to focus on their own goals and bottom line. Surprisingly, however, many new clients are coming to Fleiner for outsourcing.
"First of all, it's targeted," he said."Secondly, I think print – like newspaper – radio and TV are very important for brand imaging, but when budgets are tight, people are looking to use their dollars wisely. … This is the time to look at those types of needs. Every company has a slow time in their fiscal calendar and people should be looking at better processes."
JLH is also providing help to non-profit organizations, which Fleiner often advises to rethink their donation tactics.
"You see more of them ramping up to raise money," he said. "They are acquisition campaigns as opposed to going to the same old well over and over again. They realize they're only reaching a small percentage of the market."
So, for example, he tells non-profits to consider seeking more donations in smaller amounts, perhaps $10 or $25, as opposed to fewer contributions at larger amounts, like $1,000.
"When you look at an economy like this, it makes you and your company a lot different – it makes you work smarter and harder," he said.
Fleiner said the expansion goals of JLH and Complemar solidify the Sparks business' future.
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On June 25, 2008, in Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle Co. the Supreme Court held that an Indian tribal court lacks jurisdiction to hear discrimination charges brought by tribal members against a non-Indian bank concerning the bank's sale of its fee land to another non-Indian. Tom Gede of Bingham Consulting Group and of counsel to Bingham McCutchen LLP discusses the case.
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Jun 21, 2013, 11:05 PM
Rake fascia; looks and function
I will be replacing the fascia when I replace my sheathing.
I've mentioned in other discussions that, ultimately, I want to install Hardie, but I'm not ready to do that yet. Hardie requires the trim to be at least 1" (actual) with shingle style so that the siding is not proud of the trim.
My current fascia is 1 x 6 (3/4 x 5.5 actual) with a shorter ( 3/4" x 1.5" ) piece tacked on the front of it and tucked up against the roofing drip edge, forming a little offset.
Does that offset provide any function?
Would it matter if I doubled up two 1 x 6 boards? I'm thinking of regular pine 1 x 6 covered with an Azek 1 x 6. That would give me a 1.5" (actual) trim which would be fine with Hardie.
I don't think it will look as good as the offset I currently have, but I can't think of anything else to do. Do you have any suggestions?
Also, I think I'll use house wrap too. Would the house wrap be installed before and under the fascia trim?
Thanks in advance.
Jun 22, 2013, 05:32 AM
That 3/4" x 1-1/2" piece at the top of your facia works with the metal drip edge to provide a drip edge that keeps water away fro the face of the facia. Making a double thick full facia will still work, especially if the outer surface is a composite material such as Koma or Azek, but you could have some paint weathering problems on your facial due to the water drippage.
What you have now is really a double use - the 1x2 is a drip edge, and is a holdover from older construction from before there was common use of metal drip edge. In your case, you also have the metal drip edge to direct water away from the facia surface. Basically, right now you have two styles of drip edge working together.
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A New Perspective on Teaching Russian: Focus on the Heritage Learner
Olga Kagan, UCLA, and Kathleen Dillon, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003
This article is reprinted with permission from Slavic and East European Journal 45.3 (2001): 507-18.
This paper presents profiles of heritage speakers of Russian and examines the distinctions between these students and traditional foreign language students. It advocates the development of pedagogical approaches and instructional materials that will challenge heritage speakers, foster their retention in language programs, and promote their attainment of professional level proficiency.
Data released in October 2000 by the US Census Bureau points to some of the crucial questions that frame the discussion to follow. At present the United States population includes the largest number of foreign born residents in its history, 11% of the total population (US Census 2000). Only recently are language professionals and policy makers beginning to recognize these speakers of immigrant (heritage) languages as a national resource. According to Brecht and Ingold more than 150 languages other than English are spoken in the United States and, importantly, the United States maintains ties with every single country in the world. Despite this reality and despite the fact that educational institutions in the United States have extensive course offerings in foreign languages, only a very small number of Americans attain the level of proficiency necessary for professional performance. It is the heritage speaker population that can fill this national need, and, therefore, it should be one of the targets of our instructional planning for the future. Heritage language acquisition is becoming a field in its own right within foreign language education. At UCLA, out of 26 regularly taught modern languages only three (Italian, French, German) do not enroll heritage students. The remaining languages all face the problem of how best to balance teaching and other resources between traditional foreign language learners and heritage speakers. What little research and curricular design that has been done is in Spanish since Spanish instructors have been grappling with the problem of two-track instruction for over 25 years. Interest and research in languages other than Spanish is developing(1), however, and the first national conference on heritage languages was held in Long Beach, CA in 1999. In September 2000 a Heritage Language Research Priorities Conference(2) convened at UCLA sought to determine a research agenda for the emergent field.
The term heritage speaker has been defined in various ways, e.g. "to refer to a student of a language who is raised in a home where a non-English language is spoken, who speaks or merely understands the language, and who is to some degree bilingual in English and the heritage language" (Vald¨¦s 375), and as a person who has "a language of personal relevance other than English" (Fishman). These definitions establish fundamental distinctions between heritage and non-heritage language learners. Precisely because of these radical differences many Slavic faculty question the legitimacy of heritage students, dismissing them as "native speakers" who do not need any instruction. Many feel that their mere presence in the classroom impedes the progress of non-heritage students, intimidating them and at times instructors as well. In view of the arguments articulated above, an opposite approach would be more enlightened and would also benefit the departments that are in crisis because of diminishing enrollments. Andrews (2000: 39) writes that "heritage learners are ... certain to become an increasingly important constituency in the Russian-language classrooms". The fact is that heritage learners can have a great deal to offer. When well trained in their language of origin, they will have an asset that will enhance their professional life. Their number in all likelihood will continue to grow even though their initial level of competency in Russian may diminish as more of them will be American-born and exclusively American-educated. If departments tailor classes specifically to meet the needs of this population, the heritage learners may become the backbone of stronger and more vibrant Russian programs of the future.
Before designing courses appropriate for these learners, it is useful to take a close look at the major distinctions among students of Russian as a native language, a heritage language or a foreign language. The heritage students are neither typical students of a foreign language, nor of a native language. The table below indicates where the main differences lie.
|L1 or L2 (age)
|L1 (child)
|L2 (after the first language has been acquired)
|Exposure to target language
|Full language community
|Outside of community
|Limited community
Native speakers learn a language in childhood and continue using it throughout life in the multiple interactions of a full language community. Students acquire a foreign language when their own native language is fully developed for their age, and their fundamental view of the world is in their own native language. Their full language community will continue to be in the native language. Heritage learners had age appropriate native language skills when they began learning the new language that was to become their primary language because of immigration.(3) The native language tends to remain at the stage where it was at the time of immigration and not infrequently even atrophies because in the limited community "the opportunity for stylistic options is reduced" (Romaine 45).
Thus, native speakers function within the full range of sociolinguistic and sociocultural communicative competencies. Heritage students lack the full spectrum of competencies because of their contact with a limited community of speakers, their incomplete or absence of education in Russian, and dominance of English in their formal education. Foreign language learners typically have no contact with the real life language community outside the classroom and therefore unlike the two previous groups function in the narrower world of textbook language.
In order to identify some of the differences between Russian heritage speakers living in the US and their counterparts living in Russia, heritage students at UCLA (41 respondents) were asked to translate a series of sentences from English into Russian. The sentences (see Appendix A) test lexical items (1 - 7); grammar (8-12); and use of capitalization (13,14). The same sentences were given to a group of high school students at a private afternoon English school in Moscow. The data allow us to divide heritage students of Russian into three groups.
Group 1 comprises students who graduated or almost graduated from high school in a Russian speaking country. They are the closest in grammatical accuracy and breadth of vocabulary to educated native speakers.
Group 2 consists of students who attended school in a Russian-speaking country through what is the equivalent of junior high. These students are essentially in control of the complete grammatical system. However, they have some lexical lacunae and significant stylistic gaps where use of academic or formal language is required.
Group 3 ranges from students who were born in this country to Russian speaking families to those who immigrated after completing elementary school in Russia. All of these students were solely or primarily educated in English.
Of all the data analysis only two specific examples are presented here: the use of LI and the use of IKH -- these perennial irritants to an educated speaker of Russian (for a chart of the complete results see Appendix B).
(li): 100% of the students in Moscow answered correctly; 11% of Group 3 and Group 2 answered correctly; 71% of Group 1 answered correctly.
(ikh): 11% (Group 3); 77% (Group 2); 78 % (Group 1)
Even though the accuracy of these values is no better than 20% and consequently the results are not entirely significant statistically, a trend is observable.
A similar study focused on vocabulary. A heritage class of 21 students was asked, prior to reading "War and Peace", to give definitions for 26 lexical items that appear early in the novel. (See Appendix C). In an examination of the results a trend once again is observable: heritage learners who attended school in Russia for 9-11 years performed at a level close to that of a native speaker, but heritage speakers who had fewer than 9 years of schooling in a Russian-speaking country had observable lacunae (for a chart of the complete results see Appendix D).
Even such a preliminary sampling seems to support the premise that heritage speakers cannot be considered native speakers and thus are legitimate students in a Russian language program. Elimination of the lacunae found in the language of heritage speakers is one of the primary foci of instruction. But of course the heritage learners are not foreign language learners either. We need to compare their proficiencies with those of traditional foreign language students to determine whether there is a need for a different methodology and instructional materials.
Since the mid-1980s, students' proficiencies in a foreign language have been measured by the ACTFL scale. If compared to non-heritage students receiving instruction in a foreign language, heritage language speakers usually possess skills that a non-native speaker of the language would require hundreds of hours to acquire, including some skills that FL learners may never acquire at the native-like level, such as native-like pronunciation, fluency in colloquial register and dialects, and sociocultural understanding (Brecht and Ingold).
The ACTFL score guides the instructor as to the proper placement of the non-heritage learner, i.e. what syllabus and what texts are likely to enable that student to advance on the proficiency scale. However, the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines are not helpful in designing a program of study for the heritage speaker. Even the least proficient heritage speakers often have the initial oral proficiency of Intermediate to Intermediate-Plus, and they have many lacunae that are difficult to describe in terms of ACTFL Guidelines. Those lacunae will not be obliterated in the course that is appropriate for the classroom taught learners of Russian who typically reach that level of proficiency after three or four years of college study (Thompson). It may thus be more advantageous to assess heritage speakers' knowledge and determine a future course of study in terms of communicative modes (or domains): interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational in accordance with the Foreign Language Standards rather than the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
The three communicative modes are presented in the table below (Valdes 396).
|Face to face communication
Written communication with individual who comes into personal contact
|Receptive communication of oral or written messages
|Spoken or written communication for an audience
Heritage students can be expected to have mastery of the interpersonal mode, especially in close personal contact. They have no or little experience with the interpretive domain, as they do not use Russian for text and data analysis, and even less experience with the presentational domain, i.e. public writing and speaking. These two domains should constitute the second focus of the curriculum.
It is important to take into account as well the heritage students' motivation for studying Russian. A series of surveys conducted at UCLA over a five year period, from 1996 to 2000 (for the 2000 survey see Appendix E), revealed that the majority of respondents wanted to study Russian in order to preserve or to recapture their Russian cultural heritage and either to get acquainted with or deepen their knowledge of Russian literature and history. This data correlates well with Andrews' (1998) description of the Third Wave of Russian-speaking immigrants as "urbanized, educated" people (46). According to his statistics, 64 % of adults in the Third Wave of Russian emigration "had received a degree from an institution of higher education" (54). Zemskaia also comments on the knowledge of Russian literature and love for Russian culture among the Third Wave (23). More information about the educational backgrounds of heritage students' families would be helpful in determining whether there is a correlation between the loss of the first language and the level of parents' education. Such information is not available at the moment, but research on motivations of heritage speakers to retain and study the home language is currently in progress. Family educational background is one of the issues being examined. (Kagan and Dillon 2001). In the meantime, preliminary studies of motivations point toward a third focus of instruction for heritage speakers, i.e. a culture /content-based curriculum.
On the basis of the information gathered so far it is possible to draw some preliminary conclusions regarding a program that would address the specific needs of heritage students of Russian. An ideal curriculum would be content based and have three foci of instruction: linguistic lacunae (grammar and vocabulary), communicative lacunae (primarily interpretive and presentational domains), and cultural lacunae (literature, history) that students have identified as the main motivators for their interest in studying Russian.
Russian instructors teaching heritage speakers at the present time have the following choice of materials:
- Textbooks of Russian as a Native Language;
- Textbooks of Russian as a Foreign Language.
But neither is suitable. Textbooks of Russian for native speakers are intended either for elementary school children or for high school students preparing for college entrance exams. The elementary school textbooks are unsuitable because of the age difference and because the choice of material (fairy tales, children's short stories and poetry) is cognitively inappropriate. The college exam preparation manuals are appropriate cognitively but assume that the student attended a Russian high school and acquired a whole layer of cultural and linguistic knowledge that heritage students lack.
To place heritage speakers together with students of Russian as a FL is to fail the needs of the former and to intimidate the latter. The following table sums up the differences between heritage learners and learners of Russian as a foreign language.
|Teaching domains
|Non-Heritage Learners
|Heritage Learners
|Pronunciation and intonation
|instruction throughout course of study
|typically none
|full range
|age appropriate/literary/academic/formal
|micro-approach (e.g. case by case)
|macro-approach (i.e. by concept)
|small texts, gradually and slowly increasing in volume and complexity
|fairly large and complex texts almost from the very beginning
|Sentence level, gradually advancing to paragraph level. The writing even at high levels of proficiency rarely approaches native ability.
|High degree of internal grammar allows expansive writing assignments at early stages of instruction. Macro-approach to writing: concentrate on the content and gradually improve spelling, grammar and stylistics.
|micro-approach: initially restricted to dialog, gradually progressing to monologue and discussion
|macro-approach: emphasis on monologue and discussion
|micro-approach: short simple texts, gradually increasing in volume and complexity
|macro-approach: full range of native language input, i.e. movies, documentaries, lectures
|micro-approach: initially isolated cultural items
|macro-approach: full range of native language input, audio, visual, and print
First and second year classes of Russian as a foreign language entail both an approach and a syllabus that are inadequate for heritage learners because they have high aural proficiency, native-like pronunciation, and vocabulary that is adequate for the needs of family and possibly community (e.g. shopping, making appointments, etc.). They also have some grammatical intuition that will function effectively if supported by declarative knowledge of grammar, i.e. "explicit and conscious" knowledge of rules that "can be articulated by the learner" (Hadley 67). They stagnate in classes that deal with rudimentary pronunciation, beginnings of grammar and vocabulary. They need a macro, not micro, approach to grammar, paradigms of declensions and conjugations rather than one case at a time. They also need extensive work on orthography, unlike non-heritage learners who basically can write anything that they can say. Even though spelling rules are necessary for both groups, many of the mistakes made by heritage learners are not made by foreign language learners. In that sense, the instruction they need is similar (though not identical) to the instruction Russian children receive in elementary school. Understandably students of Group 3 whose whole educational experience was in English and who never received formal education in Russian make more spelling mistakes and even their cursive writing resembles an "alphabet soup" (Bermel and Kagan 420). Experience indicates that even students of Group 2 need reinforcement of their writing skills before they can be comfortable writing in Russian.
Since foreign language students at the ACTFL Intermediate-High, Advanced levels of instruction are able to express age-appropriate ideas, it would seem possible to place heritage speakers together with these students. However, such a merger is also inadvisable because of the vastly different needs of the two groups. First, non-heritage students do not have the same spelling problems and do not profit from extensive and repetitive spelling assignments that are much needed by heritage learners. Second, even if both heritage and non-heritage students have similar levels of oral proficiency, heritage speakers need work on pragmatics and stylistics that is typically beyond the reach of even advanced learners of Russian as a foreign language. Without development of these skills, heritage learners will never progress in the language. Third, non-heritage learners unlike heritage speakers need ongoing work on aural comprehension as it remains their least developed competency (Thompson 276). Fourth, heritage learners who have never been taught grammar find the explanations in the textbook almost incomprehensible because unlike the foreign language learners they have not been exposed to the meta language of instruction.
There is clearly a need for textbooks and other materials designed to meet the unique needs of heritage students. Such a textbook needs to be cognitively appropriate; start at the point of comfort; move rapidly but consistently; have adequate grammar explanations and employ a macro-approach to grammar; incorporate those layers of vocabulary that students are unfamiliar or only marginally familiar with: contain pertinent cultural, sociocultural and sociolinguistic information.4 And finally, like the foreign language learner, the heritage learner needs to be taught learning strategies.
Heritage speakers are legitimate students in a Russian language class if the curriculum addresses them as having a unique starting point and particular instructional needs and challenges them to attain the status of legitimate native speakers. As Gonzales Pino and Pino have asserted regarding Spanish- speaking heritage students "[p]ost-secondary educators are increasingly recognizing the need to serve this population more effectively" (27). We hope that this article will open a discussion of more effective programs and practices for heritage speakers of Russian.
Andrews, David. Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamin's Publishing Company, 1998.
-----. "Heritage Learners in the Russian Classroom: Where Linguistics Can Help." ADFL 31.3 (2000): 39-44.
Bermel, Neil, and Olga Kagan. "The Maintenance of Written Russian in Heritage Speakers." Kagan and Rifkin 405-36.
Brecht, Richard D., and Catherine W. Ingold. "Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Learners in the United States." Eric Digest, Washington DC: ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, 1998. (www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/brecht01.html )
Ching, K.L., and Hsiang-te Kung. "Ethnic Identity, Americanization, and Survival of the Mother Tongue: The First- vs. the Second-Generation of Chinese Professionals in Memphis." Language Variety in the South Revisited. Ed. Bernstein, Cynthia, Thomas Nunnally and Robin Sabino. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
Cummins, Jim. "Social and Psychological Determinants of Language Shift: The Case of the Filipino Community in the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America." Dissertation Abstracts International 56/12: 4643, 1996.
Kagan, Olga, and Benjamin Rifkin, eds. The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2000.
Kagan, Olga, and Kathleen Dillon. "Motivation and Language Preservation: A Case Study of Russian Heritage Students." (2001) Work in progress.
Gonzalez Pino, Barbara, and Frank Pino. "Serving the Heritage Speaker across a Five-Year Program." ADFL Bulletin 32:1 (2000). 27-35.
Fishman, Joshua. "Three Centuries of Heritage Language Education in the United States." Heritage Languages in America: Preserving a National Resource. Ed. Joy Kreeft Peyton, Donald A. Ranard, and Scott McGinnis. McHenry, IL: The Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems, 2001. 81-97.
Foreign Language Standards: Linking Research, Theories, and Practices. Ed. June K.Phillips. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 1999.
Omaggio Hadley, Alice. Teaching Language in Context. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2000.
Polinsky, Maria. "The Composite Linguistic Profile of a Speakers of Russian in the US" Kagan and Rifkin 437- 65.
Romaine, Suzanne. Bilinguilism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1995
Rouchdy, Aleya, ed. The Arabic Language in America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
Thompson, Irene. "Assessing Foreign Language Skills." The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures. Kagan and Rifkin 255-84.
Tran-Nguyen, Mary Phuoc. "The Relationship between Native Vietnamese Language Literacy and English Language Reading Achievements of Vietnamese High School Students." Dissertation Abstracts International AI-A 59/03 (September 1998): 703.
Tse, Lucy. "Ethnic Identity Development and the Role of the Heritage Language (Asian Americans, Immigrants)." University of Southern California. Dissertation Abstracts International. 58.5 (November 1997): 1554.
Valdes, Guadalupe. "The Teaching of Heritage Languages: An Introduction for Slavic-Teaching Professionals" Kagan and Rifkin 375-403.
Zemskaia, Elena A. "Umiraet li jazyk russkogo zarubezhja?". Voprosy jazykoznanija #1 (2001): 14-30.
1. The 90s have seen publications addressing the problems of heritage speakers of languages other than Spanish. Some examples are Rouchdy (Arabic); Ching and Hsiang-te Kung , also Tse (Chinese); Andrews, Polinsky (Russian); Cummins (Tagalog); Tran-Nguyen (Vietnamese)].(BACK)
2. The reports of both conferences are available at www.cal.org/heritage. For the printed report of the UCLA conference see Bilingual Research Journal Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2000. 475-488.(BACK)
3. For a detailed description of heritage speakers' profile of oral competency, see Andrews 1998, Polinsky 2000 and earlier work. For written competency analysis, see Bermel and Kagan.(BACK)
Translate into Russian:
- one o'clock in the morning
- a two-bedroom apartment
- season
- an apartment building
- to ask a question
- I'm a junior in college.
- I major in ____________.
- Last summer I went to Russia to visit my family.
- I want to know whether you're going to Russia next summer.
- I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow.
- I want someone to explain it to me.
- My family came from Siberia and their family came from the Caucuses.
- It happened in February.
- They live in the South.
|Years in school in a Russian-speaking country
|8-9 /2000
|Number of respondents
|Grammatical competence: (li)
|1 +
8 - *
|2 +
12 - *
2 no response
|10 +
4 - **
|18 +
0 -
|Grammatical competence: (ikh)
|1 +
8 - ***
|14 +
4 no response
|11 +
1 - ****
1 no response
|18 +
0 -
- incorrect answer
* ili, esli
*** ixnija, ixnjaja
**** 16 years out of Russia, speaks Georgian and Armenian
|1. dvorjanin - nobleman
|14. uchtivyi - civil, courteous, considerate
|2. lakei - man-servant
|15. sobesednica - interlocutress, interlocutrix
|3. mundir - full-dress uniform
|16. polagat' - suppose, think
|4. pokrovitel'stvennyi ton - protective, condescending, patronizing tone
|17. sverx''estestvennyi - supernatural
|5. svoistvennyii - peculiar
|18. ravnovesie - equilibrium, balance
|6. blagodetel' - benefactor
|19. vosxititel'nyi - delightful
|7. ezheli - if (vernacular)
|20. neukliuzhii - clumsy, awkward
|9. lovkost' - adroitness, dexterity, deftness
|22. otvlechennyi - diverted, distracted, drawn away
|10. bezapelliacionno - peremptory, categorical, allowing of no appeal
|23. ubezhdennyi - convinced, confirmed, persuaded
|11. vsia znat' Peterburga - all of St. Petersburg's nobility
|24. ispodlob'ia - look from under the brows
|12. obriad - rite, ceremony
|25. besputnyi - dissipated, dissolute, licentious
|13. besprestanno - continually, incessantly
|26. perina - feather-bed
|Living in
|Years in school in Russia
|Number of respondents
|Vocabulary competence:19 century vocabulary (26 items)
APPENDIX E - Motivation of Heritage Learners
Survey of Heritage Speakers: Motivation (2000)
What are your reasons for studying Russian language or literature? You may circle more than one answer.
|Grades completed in Russia
|Number of respondents
|R e a s o n s
|R e s p o n s e s
|To preserve Russian culture
|To read Russian literature
** I want to live and work in Moscow
*** interesting lectures; personal; GE requirement;
to improve my GPA
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Jets' second-period collapse helps Hawks win 5-1
WINNIPEG — It was a swift ending to today's NHL game at the MTS Centre and it didn't come anywhere near the end of it.
The Chicago Blackhawks, making their first visit of the new era here, scored three times in the first 5:42 of the second period and coasted to a 5-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.
Goals by Brandon Bollig, Patrick Sharp and Nick Leddy early in the second snapped a 1-1 tie and left the Jets with just one win in their last seven games.
Winnipeg, 5-8-2, meets Detroit here on Monday.
"You could see some frustration in the way that we managed that game," said Jets coach Claude Noel. "We were in pretty good shape in the first period as long as we could keep it that way.
"I think in the matter of a couple of minutes, the game changed drastically and certainly when that happens, there's a lot of emotion comes into yourself that is not good emotion and that's what starts to get to you.
"Plus you take the air out of the building."
What really hurt was that to start the second period, the Jets' line of Bryan Little, Andrew Ladd and Devin Setoguchi had two or three scoring chances on Chicago goalie Corey Crawford right off the bat.
Then Bollig went down the ice on a two-on-one with Marcus Kruger and buried the go-ahead goal.
Winnipeg's Toby Enstrom and Chicago's Niklas Hjalmarsson had traded goals in the first.
The sequence early in the second put on display the difference in finish held by the defending Stanley Cup champs.
"It's the team you have," Noel said. "We have what we have, they have what they have. You're not going to re-invent how to play. Puck management was critical. That was a key part of the game. Put them on transition, put them on special teams, you're going to have trouble.
"If you don't manage the puck well, you're going to have trouble.
"We made mistakes before it got to our goalies so I'm not going to sit here and blame our goalies. There's no rocket science way to play when you play a team that can hurt you."
Chicago, now 9-2-3, knew what to do after it got the lead.
"I think we had a pretty good first period," said former Hawks forward Michael Frolik, who now skates for the Jets. "We were all over them, had a few chances and we were happy in the first period
"In the second period, they just scored three quick goals and that's how they play. They've got good transition, very quick, and we gave up three goals and after it, it was kind of over. We said in the room to go after them, don't quit, but they didn't give up much after that."
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